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# rapid — English to French

How English *rapid* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [rapid in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/rapid/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: rapid (36 973), rapids (16). By style: everyday 24 · literary 14 · parliamentary 3 496 · legal and administrative 2 768 · UN documents 30 687.

## rapide

Used about 29 769 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 2 986 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 713 · UN documents ≈ 24 038). Forms: rapide, rapidement, rapides.

- We made **rapid** progress.
  Nous fîmes des progrès **rapides**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12319426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12319426) [\#3631768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3631768))

- And with a **rapid** movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out into the corridor.
  Et d'un mouvement **rapide** elle ouvrit la porte du bouge et sortit dans le corridor.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17119)

- For this reason, **rapid** action by the EU is sought.
  C'est pourquoi l'UE cherche une action **rapide**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1283848)

- **Rapid** Border Intervention Teams
  Équipes d’intervention **rapide** aux frontières
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1268587)

- METHOD II — **RAPID** METHOD
  METHODE II - METHODE **RAPIDE**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4327698)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- A lady's imagination is very **rapid**; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
  L’imagination d’une femme est bien vive, elle passe en un instant de l’admiration à l’amour, et de l’amour au mariage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#837399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/837399) [\#838415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/838415))

- Tom is not a **rapid** reader.
  Tom ne lit pas vite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#3609286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3609286) [\#3526599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3526599))

- But they travelled at a very **rapid** rate.
  Elles allaient, du reste, fort vite.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5368)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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